On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 12:21:48PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi all, > > Today's linux-next merge of the xfs tree got a conflict in > fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c between commit 7eaceaccab5f ("block: remove > per-queue plugging") from Linus' tree and commit 0e6e847ffe37 ("xfs: stop > using the page cache to back the buffer cache") from the xfs tree. > > I assume that these changes (on both sides) were discussed somewhere, but > maybe not clearly enough? > > I have no idea how to fix this, so I tried to just use the xfs tree > version for today. That failed like this: > > fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c: In function 'xfs_buf_lock': > fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_buf.c:923: error: implicit declaration of function 'blk_run_backing_dev' > > So I used the xfs tree from next-20110325 for today. What XFS does is to replace blk_run_address_space, which was a wrapper around blk_run_backing_dev with a direct call to blk_run_backing_dev, as there change means we don't have the address_space around anymore. Jens' tree removes both these functions, and introduces blk_flush_plug as a sort-of replacement. Sticking to the variant from Jens' tree / mainline with blk_flush_plug is the correct thing here for this case. Where there more conflicts than just this? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html